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religious_reading| ' Blow High. I Blow higb, ye winds of God, blow high. And sweep the black clouds front the sky, 1 'And all the foul air that has birth | , I In the low places of the earth, l StvoAn thpm flWftV ! ^ ""T ^ Blow high, ye winds of God, blow high; And all that causeth men to sigh, Sin-cursed oppression, heartless wrong, However old, however strong, Sweep them away! * Blow high, ye winds of God, blow hi ?h, The scornful sneer, the shameful lie, , The reckless tampe-ing with doubt The foul within, and white without, , Sweep them away I 1 Blow hrgh, ye winds of God, blow high; And all that causes men to die, The gateways leading down to hell, : Where men their souls for whisky sell. Sweep them away. A Prayer for the Country. Almighty God, who in the former time i leddest our fathers fcrth into a wealthy i place, and didst set their feet in a large 1 room, give thy grace, we humbly be- c seech thee, to us their children, that we t may always approve ourselves a people c mindful of thy favor and glad to do thy c will. Bless our land with honorable in- s dustrv. sound learninir and pure manners, i Defend our liberties, preserve our unity, j Save us from violence, discord and con- c fusion, from pride and arrogancy, and [ from every evil way. Fashion into one { happy people the multitudes brought c hither out of many kindreds and tongues. Endue with the spirit of wisdom those ? whom we intrust in thy name with the t authority of govcrnancc, to the end that o there be peace at home, and that we * keep our peace among the nations of the J earth. In the time of our prosperity, i temper our self-confidence with thank- r fulness, and in the day of trouble suffer 1 not our trust in thee to fail. All which [ we ask for Jesus Christ's sake. Amen. e Mfe Everlasting. t A /loor mother lav dvinjr. For vears ^ .fc*. WVW4 M.VMV. J ?J O" j m past that hoary head had been the crown- ' ing glory of home. In all the affairs of 8 family life her advice had been deemed t precious ; for had she not sought the s wisdom that cometh down from above? j t and the confidence reposed in her judg- j ment was but the evidence of the guid- 1 ing h<tnd. Through the trying period of J young maternity, a? through the ripor J years of motherhood, and when at length j, others now matured had assumed the 1; burdens it had been hers to carry, and age 8 had siivcred the locks and diminished the ? physical vitality, her trust in the dear lie- g aeemer had deepened and strengthened, e ur\naflA in rhnprfnl uwQiir- t UUHi} WilU IU\/ UJ/VJVIV, VMVV?.M, .-vr^?.. ance, she could say, "I Jcnoto whom I have ? believed." Never had she appeared more r beautiful than while waiting the sum- t mons to come up higher. Her children, t to the fourth generation, had gathered c around the bedside. The tenderness and c love shown there were but the ripened j fruit of her own planting in the years ? gone by. Grandmother was loved, be- ? cause mother had first been the all in all. s As the last words were spokon to each in t turn, in the realization that the parting <3 would be for a little while only, one, c Surprised at such calmness in the very ? face of the King of Terrors, exclaimed:? e "Why, this is not like death/''1 "Death!" t Said the departing saint, as a new light j appeared to gleam in the dying eyes, and r a momentary strength w;is imparted, c " death ! why this is life everlasting ! " * In a few moments the spirit had re- ' turned to Gxl who gave it ? the reality ^ of the Christian hope, the comfort of a s childlikc trust in Him who has promised * us all things, both for this life and that c to come! ^ " Jesu?, thou Prince of Life, n Thy chosen cannot die; b Like thee they conquer in the strife, * To reign with thee un high!" a ?Irene, jj LHtl? Amy. Rev. M. G. Mann, in tha Presbyterian n Some Missionary, relates the following ! 6 " incident in connection with the work ? among the Indians at Chehaiis, Washing- g ton Territory: e "The old hereditary chief, Se-cenna, * ha3 a blind wife, a blind old sister, and [ a girl, about twelve year3 of nge, dying e of consumption. This l.'ttle sickly child t was the one who should lead them?the r whole family?to Christ. Little Amy ^ nvd to come to the Sundav-school. and f gladly listened to thestory of the Gospel, a She desired to be baptized and to be re- 8 ceived into the church. She seemed so f1 very happy. Then she would lead her f blind mother to church, and, becom'ng r a faithful and regular attendant, she be- 1 Came converted, and, rising to her feet 1 told all the people how the Lord Jesus had opened her eyes so that she now sees t beyond the veil, and I baptized her in o the presence of a )ar<;e congregation, J who were visibly affected. She, in s token of her submission to her Lord and s Master whom she promised to follow and t ?bey, knelt down to receive baptism. j1 "When I first met this woman, over a year {j ago, in her small yet tidy hut, she was in y the act of trying on a partially finished t calico dress, which she herself had made J for her little daughter. I asked her in c Chinnook who cut and baisted the dress, j She answered that she herself did it s all, while Amy threaded the needles for c her. The dress was, as I saw afterward, & not only a good tit, but also lined. The ? little girl then brought this old blind e aunt, perhaps ninety years old, to church I as often as the weather would permit, | until her (the girl's) failing strength for- [ bade her to come any longer. The old j woman finally wished to accept the I strong arms of Jesus to be her support ' in her declining years, and, believing in J him and yielding herself up to him, sl:e e was baptized last Sunday before the i church. I shall never in my lifetime r forget the sight and the feeling as I saw ^ the aged disciple, led by the hand of the j elder, come forward, telling the people i what led her to become a Christian, of 1 her trust in God, and as she knelt to re- * ceive baptism with uplifted face, she c seemed to see Ilim who sitteth on the , great white throne, who would soon give 1 her a never-ending second-sight. "The old chief told me, as I made them J all a visit the same Sunday afternoon, that he himself would resist no longer: his people were all becoming Christians and he would follow next. Proud of his ancestry and the old traditions of which he was the bearer and exponeut, he hesitated to own that lie was conquered by Him before whom every knej shall bend, to proclaim Him Lord of all." It has been the custom of the New Orleans daily newspaper publishers to take back from the retailers the unsold copies of their papers. This has been stopped recently, because the publishers found that they were being robbed. Several dealers Had estaolished routes on which they rented the papers at reduced rates instead of sealing th8m. They delivered the papers in the morning, gathered them up in the evening, and returned them as un?olrt copies. OR TULMAGE'S SERMON. MEASURED BY YOUR OWN YARD STICKS. [Prear.hed at Ashevills, N. C.J Text: "With what measure ye mete, it ihall be measured to you again." Matthew k ii. 3. In the greatest sermon ever preached?a sermonabout fifteen miuutes'long, according :o the ordinary rate of speech?a sermon on " 'M: ciffinrr /lib illUUUk Ul uii>ro, kuct i I OU, UOl , tvhile He spoke, according to the aucient node of oratory, the people were given to inderstand that the same yard stick that :hey employed upon others would be em>loyed upon themselves. Measure others by i harsh rule, and you will be measured by a :arsh rule. Measure others by a charitable ule, and you will be measured by a charitable rule. Give no mercy to others, and no nercy will be given to you. "With what neasure ye mete, it shall be measured to you icrain." There is a great deal of unfairness in the I rriticism of human conduct. It was to smite ;hat unfairness that Christ uttered the words >f the text, and my sermon will be a re-echo >f the Divine sentiment. In estimating tho nisbehavior of others wo must take into con- | iideration the pressure of circumstanres. It s never right to do wroug, but there are de- ] ;rees of culpability. When m?n misbehave ! >r commit some atrocious wickedness we are | lisposed indiscriminately to tumble them all iver the bank of condemnation. Suffer they >ught and suffer they must; but in difference >f decree. In the first place, in estimating the misloin<i of others we must take into calculation he hereditary tendency. There is such a hing as good blood and there is such a thing is bad bloo:l. There a e families that have ladamoral twist in thjm for a hundred "ears back. They have not be?n careful to ;eep the family record in that regard. There lave been escapades and maraudings and couudrelisms and moral deficits all the way ;ack, whether you call it kleptomania or >yromania or dipsomania, or whether it be n a milder form and amount to no mania at dl. Tho strong probability is. that the pres- I nt criminal sta:ted life with nerve, muscle lud bone contam nate 1. As pome start life vith a natural tendency to r.obility anl gen rosity, and kindness anl truthfulness, there ire otners who start life with just the oppoite tendency, and they are born liars, or x)rn malcontents, or born outlaws, or born iwindbrs. There is in England a school that is called he Princess Mary School. All the childrea n that school are the children of convicts, rhe school is supported by high patronage. ! had the pleasure of being present at one of heir anniversaries in 1879, presided over by he Earl of Kintore. By a wise law in Engand, after parents have committed a certain tumber of crimes and thereby shown themelves incompetent rightly ta bring up their bildren, the little ones are taken from under >ernicious influences and put in reformatory chool.s where all gracious and kindly influ iUv to auaii LU uiuu^iib upuu tuuiu. v/i wmao he experiment is young and it has got to be lemon stra ted how large a psrcenta^e of the ihildron of convicts may be brought up to espectability and usefulness. But we all mow that it is more difficult for ch ldren of >ad parentage to do right than for children >f good parentage. In this country we are taught by the Declaration of American Independence that all >eople are born equal. There never was a greater m'srepresentation put in one senence than in that sentence which implies hat we are all born equal. You may as well ay that flowers are born equal, or trees are > >rn equal, or animals are bora equal. Why i loe3 one horse cost $100 and another horse I ost $.*0,030? Why docs ons sheap cost $10 I md another sheep *500? Difference in blood. rVe are wise enough to recogni/o the ditFernce of blood in horses, in catt'.e, in sheep, >ut we are not wise enough to make allownce for the difference in the human blood, low I demand, by thj law of eternal fairLess, that you be more lenient in your critiism of those who were born wrong, iu vhose ancestral line there was a hangman's mot. or who came from a tree the fruit of rhich for centurios has been gnarled and rorm-eaten. Dr. Harris, a reformer, gave ome marvelous statistics in his story of rhat he called '"Margaret, the mother of riminals." Ninety years ago she lived in a illage in Upper New York State. She was lot only poor, but she was vicious. She was ot well provided for. There were no almsiruses there. The public, however, somewhat looked after her, but chiofly scoffed at nd derided her, pushed her further down a her crimes. That was ninety years ago, 'here have been 623 persons in that anestral line. 203 of th3in criminals. In one ranch of that family there wero twenty, nd nine of them have been in state Prison, and nearly all of tha there have turned out badly. It is estinated that that family cost the County and state $100,0 0, to say nothing of the propi ty they destroyed. Are you not w.lline, s sensible people, to acknowledge that it is~a earful disaster to b i born in such an au?asral line? Doe3 it not make a great differnce whether one descends from Margaret, be moth r of criminals, or frcm some nother in Israel? VFhather you are the soa if Ahab or the son of Joshua.' It is a very liffereut thing to swim with the current rom what it is to swim against the current, is some of you have no doubt found in yojr ummer recreation. If a mai find himelf in an ancestral current where here is good blood flowing smoothly rom generation to generation it is lot a very great credit to him if ie turns out good and honest aud pure and loble. He could hardly help it nut sud>ose he is born in an ancestral line--in a lereditary line?where the influences have ?een bad and there has been a comin; down iver a moral declivity, if the man surrender o the influences he will go down under he overmastering gravitation unless some uperaatural aid be afforded him. Now, ueh a person deserves not your excoriation, iut your pity. Do not sit with the lip curled a s orn, an i with an assumed air of angelic nocen *e, looking down upon such moral irecipitation. You had better get down on our l:nees and first pray Almighty God for heir rescue, and next thank the Lord that ou have not been thrown under the wheels >f 1 hat Juggernaut. In Great Britain and in the United State3, n every generation, thore are tens of thouaud* of persons who are fully developed riminalsand incarcerated. 1 say, in every ;eneration. Then, I suppose, thore are tens if thousands of persons not found out in heir criminality. In addition to these there ire tens cf thousands of persons who, not ;ositively be.-oming crimina's, nevertheless lave a criminal tendency. Anyone of all hose thou-and.s by the grace of God may >ecome Christen, and resist the ancestral inluence and open a new chapter of behavior; ,4. .1.- ;ii ?i. ? ?> iuu tuo vo&b majority ui uieiii win nub, aau t becomes all men. professional, unproessional. ministers of religion, judges of ?urts, philanthropists and Christian workers to recognizo the fa' t that there are these Vtlautic and Pacific surges of hereditary evil oiling on through the centuries. I say, cf coursj. a man Can resist this tenlency, just a* in the ancestral line mentioned n th3 first chapter of Matthew. You see n the same line in which there was a wicked .tehob am and a desperate Manasses, there ifterward came a pious Joseph and a glori>us Christ. But, my friends, you mu-it recoglize the fact that these influences go on from generation to generation. I am glad *o enow, however, that a river which has proluced nothing but miasma for a hundred niles, may, after awhile, turn tin wheels of 'actories and help support industrious and virtuous populations: and there are family ines which were poisoned that are a beneliction now. At the Last Day it will be 'ound out that there are men who have gone ;lear over into all forms of iniquity and ilunz?l into utter abandonment, who, before they yielded to the first temptation, reiisted more evil than many a man who has seen moral and upright all his life. But supposirg now that in this age when there it- a so intiuy gooi people that 1 coiue .own int> this audience and select the very best man in it. I do no: mcau the man who would style himself the best, for probably he is a hvnocrite: but I mean the man who before God is really the best. I will take you out from all your Christian surroundings. I will tike you back to boyhoo 1. I will put you in a deprave 1 home. I will put you in a prodie cf iniquity. Who ii that ben-ling over that cradle? An intoxicated mother. TVho is that swearing in the next i 5om! Your father. The neighbors come in to talk, and their jokes are unclean. There is not in the house a Bible or a moral t-eatise, but only a few scraps of an old pictorial. After a while yau are old enough to get out of the cradle, and you are struck across the head for naughtiness, but never in any kindly manner reprimanded. After a while you aro old enough to eo abroad, and you are sant out with a Dasket to steal. If you come horns without any spoil, you are whipped until the blood comes. At fifteen years of age. you go out to fight your own battles in this world, which seems to care no more for you than the dog that : has died of a fit under the fence. You are i kicked and cuffed an 1 buffeted. Someday, i rallyinz your courage, you rosenf; some i wrong."A man says: '"Who are you? I know who you are. Your father had free lodgings | at Sing Sing. Your mother, she was up for i drunkenness at the Criminal Court. Get out i of my way, you low-live 1 wretch?" My ] brother, suppose that had been the history of < your adven% and the history of your early I surroundings, would you "have been the I Christian man you are to-day, seated in this i Christian assembly. I tell you nay. You I would have been a vagabond, an outlaw, a i muraerer on me scauoui aioumg iur ;uui crirao. AU tho;e considerations ou?ht tc makeu3 merciful in our dealings with th> wandering and the lost. A^aiu, I have to remark tint in our estimate of the misdoings of p ople who have fallen from high respectability and usefulness we mu^t take int> consideration the conjunction of circumstances. In nine cases out of tan a man who goes astray does not intend any positive wrong. He has trust fund--. He risks a part of these funds in investment. Hi says; "Now, if I should lose that investment I have of my own property five timo3 ai much, and if this investment should go wrong I could easily make it up: I [ could five times make it up." With that wrong reasoning he goes on and makes the ' investment, and it doe3 not turn out quite so I well as he expected," and he makes another | investment, and, strange to say, at the same time all his other affairs get entangled, and all his other resources fail, and his hands are tied. Now he wants to extricate himself. He goes a little further on in the wrong investment. He takes a plunge further ahead, for he wants to save his wife and children, he wants to save his home, he want* to save his memb?rship in the church. He takes one more plunge and all is lost. Some morning at 10 o'clock the bank door is not opened, ana there is a card on the door signal by an officer of the bank, indicating that there is trouble, the nam i of the defaulter or the defrauder heals the newspaper column, and huudreds of men say: "bood for him:" hundreds of other men say: 'Tm glad he's found out at last;" hundreds of other men say: "Just a? I told you;" hundreds of other men say: ''We couldn't possibly have been tempted to do that?no conjunction of circumstan e * could ever have overthrown me;" / and there is a superabundance of indigna- f. tion but no pity. The heavens full of light- t ning, but not one drop of dew. If God ? treated us as society treats that man we s would all have been in hell long ago! Wall t for the alleviating circumstances. Perhips 1 he may have been the dupe of others. Be- p ' fore you let all the hounds out from their t """" i *< ? maul ?nl tear that man. find ir oat if he hai not been brought up in a (1 commercial establishment where there was' i a wrong system of ethics taught J | find out whether that man has not! t an extravagant wife, who is not satisfied! 1 with his honest earnings, and in the tempta-' t tion to p'ease her he ha) gone into that ruin s into which enough men have fallen, and by ? [ the saina temptation, to make a procession of] i many mile*. Perhaps some 9udden sickness! f may have touched h s brain, and his judg- s ment may be unbalanced. He i3 wrong?he < | is awfully wrong,and h> must be condemned, c I but there may be mitigating circumstances, t Perhaps under the same temptation you ^ might have fallen. Toe reason some men do j [ not steal X),000 is because they do not get ] a chance! Have righteous indignation youi t must about that man's conduct, buj j temper it with mercy. But you siy: "I amj ^ so sorry that the inno:ent should suffer.'^ j Yes, I am to j?sorry for ths widow* and orphans who lost their all by that defalcation, j j I am sorry, als >, for ths business men, tha j honest business men, who have had their < affairs all crippled by that d3falcatioa. I s am sorry for the venerable bank President to $ whom the credit of that bank wa3 a matter ( of pri le. Yes, I am sorry, also, for that man l Vi - 'I * '? J: . wno orou;;at u;i me u?u?au??j , sacrificed body, mind, soul, reputation, g Heaven, au:l went into th)blacknesi of dark- , ness forever. You defiantlj'sav: "I could not be tempted in that way." Perhaps you may be tested after awhile. God has a very good me-nory. and he sometimes seem* to say: 4*Thi3 man feels so strong in his innate power and goodHiss In s.hall be te3ted: he is so full of bitter l'nve -tivs against that unfortunate,it shall be shown now wh^thor he has tin powsr to stand." Fifteen yeaps go by. The wheel of fortune turn3 several times, and you are in a crisis that you never coal i bavo anticipated. Now.all the powers of darkness come around, and they chuckle, and they chatter, and they say: "Aha! here is the oil fe'low who wai so proud of his integrity, and who bragged he couldn't be overthrown by temptation, and was so uproarious in his demonstrations of indignation at the defalcation fifteen years ago. I.et us see. God lets the man go. God, who had kopt that man under His protecting care, lets the man go and try for himself the majesty of his intigrity. God let ing the man go, the powers of darkness pounce upon him. I see you some day , in vour office in great excitement. One of two things you can do. Be honest, and be pauperised, and have your children brought home fro:u school, your family dethroned in social influence. Tne other thin?r is, you can s-t?p a j little aside from that wh'rn is right, you can only just go ha f an inch out of the proper path, i you can only take a little risk, and then you . have all your finances fair and right. You have a large property. You can leave a for- ? tune for your childron and endow a college t and build a public library in your native town. You halt and wait, and halt and wait I until your lips get white. You decide to , risk it. Only a few strokes of the pen now. Bat oh. how your hand trembles, how ] dreadfully it trembles! The die is cast. < By the strangest and most awful k conjunction of circumstances anv ona t could have imagined, you are prostrated. , Bankruptcy, commercial annihilation, ex- ' posure, cri ne. Good men mourn and devils ( hold carnival, and you see your own name at . the head of tho newspaper column iu a whole * congress of exclamation points; and while ] you are reading the anathema in the report jrial and editorial paragraph, it occurs to I you how much this story is like that of the t defalcation Hf teen years ago. and a clap of thundershp.kes the window-sill, saying: "With 1 what measure ye mete, it shall be measured j to vou again!" You look in another direction. There is ? nothing like an ebullition of temper to put a. , ?non tn rtisadvantage. You. a man witb. calm pulses and a tine digestion and perfect, i health, can not understand how anybody should be c apsized in temper by an infinitesimil annoyance. You say: ' I couldn't be f unbalanced in that way." Perhaps you smile at a provocation that makes auothir man 1 swear. You pride yourself on your imper- j turbabilitv. You say with your manner, , though vo'u have too much good taste to say J with your words: "I have a great deal more J sense than that man has; I have a great deal . more equipoise of temper than that man has; ' I never could make such a puerile exhibition ] of mvsalf as that man has made." I My'brother, you do not realize that that ' I man was born with a keen nervous organize| tion; that for forty years he has been under u depleting process; that sickness and trouble have been helping undo what was left i of original healthfulness; that much of his tim: it has been with him like Qling saws: < that his nerves have come to be merely? , tanjle of disorders, and that he is the mos? pitiable object on earth, who, though he is , very sick, does not look sick, and nobody sympathizes. Let me see. Did you not say that you could not be tempted to j an ebullition of temper? Since September , you come home from your summer watering;- 1 place, and you have inside, away back i:a < your liver or spleen, what we call in our dtvr malaria, but what the old folks called chills ' and fever. You take quinineuntil your ears | are first buzzing beehives and then roaring , Niagaras. You ta'.ce roots and herbs, you take everything. You get well. Hut the next day i you feel uncomfortable, and you yawn, and you stretch, and ^-ou shiver, an I you coil- ' Bume, and you sutler, vexea more inau you \ can tell, you can not sleep, you can not eat, vou can not bear to see anything that looks | happy, you go out to kick the cat that is , asleep in the sun. Your children's mirth was once music to you; now it is deafening. You say: "Boys, stop that racket!" You turn back from June to March. In the family , and in the neighborhood your popularity is 1 Bo per cent. off. The world says: "What is | the matter with that disagreeable man? What a woe-bogone countenance! I can't bear the sight of him." You have got your < pay at last?got your pay. You feel just as the man felt?that man for whom you had ' no mercy, and my text conies in with inar- j velous appositeness: "With what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again." ' i In the study of society I have come to this j conclusion?thnt the most of the people want to be go->ri, but they do not exactly know ' how to make it out They make eiou jh gond < resolutions to lift them into angelhood. The vast majority of people who fall are the vie- 1 tims of circumstance; they are captured by | ambuscade. If their temptation should mT come out in a regimen t and tig ht them in a | {; fair field they would go out in the strength, and the triumph of I)avid against Gohah. But they do not see the giants and they do not see the regiment. Suppose temptation should come up to a man and iiay: "Here is J alcohol: take tnree tablespoonfulsof it a day, Qjj until you. get dependent upon it; thjn after that take half a glass three times a day, until st&l you get dependent upon that umount; then -ea eo on increasing the amount antil yoa are \ saturated from morning until night and from ries aight until morning." Do yon suppose any __e man would become a drunkard in that way\ f Oh, no! Temptation comes and says- "Take IS a these bitters, take this nervine, take this aid ovc So digestion, take this uighfc-cap." The vast majority of men and women who are de- 186 itroyed by opium aud by rum f rst take them jajj is medicines. In making up your dish of jriticism in regard to them, take from thn stw wctoi- tho mint, nf sweet oil and not the cruet tnn >fcayenne pepper. Be erusy cm them. Do | pou know how tliat physician, that lawyer, be I ;hat journalist becameftho vict im of dissipa;ion? Why, the physician was kept up light by night on professiona 1 duty. Life lice ind death hovered in the balance. His nerv- anc )us system was exhausted. There came a ;ime of epidemic, and whole families were jrostruted, and his nervous strength was ?one. He was all worn out in the service of <] ;he public. Now he must bra?o himself up. STow he stimulates. The life of this mother, 'ro: ;he life of this child, the life of this father, 0f ;he life of this whole family must b; saved, tnd the lives of all these families must be WCT saved, and he stimulates, and he does it again md again. You may criticise his judgment, 1 jut remember the process. It was not a sel- yea ish process by which he went down. It was ' rcai i magnificent generosity through which he Jell. That attorney at the bar for weeks has last >een standing in a poorly ve atilated court- Qf nnm. lintoninc *n t.ha testimony and contesting in the dry technicalities of tho law, and tim low the time has come for him to wind u*>, r ind he must plead for the life of his client, ? ind his nervous system is all gone. If dre le fails in that speech then his client , Irishes. If he can have eloquence 1 jnough in that hour his client is savei. He dre itimulates. He must keep up. He says; "I < nustkeepup." Having a lar^e practice you ?Da ;ee how he is inthralled. You may criticise sioi ii3 judgment, but remember the process. Do . . lot be nard. That journalist has had ex- es wArb Wa Haq tft fnll iaiUVlU,^ 1IUUU?qUV "Win. ??? ? ,w.4 eport speeches and orations that keap , rim up till a very late hour. He has ciai jone with much exposure working no mo; (ome case of crime in company with a . leteative. Ho sifcs down at "midnight l0U: :o write out his note? from a memorandum gro icrawled on a pad under unfavorable circumitances. His stren^th is gone. Fidelity to ;he public intelligence, fidelity to his own the ivelihood, demands that he keep up. He , . nustkeep up. He stimu ates. Again and igain he does that, and he goes down. You gtri nay criticise h is judgment in the matter, but , rnve mercy. Remember the process. Do ttle lot be hard. bas My friends, this text will come to fulfill- i nent in some cases in this world. The evc luntsman in Farmsteen was shot by some W'a; mknown person. Twenty years after the on of the huntsman was in the same forest, con tnd he accidentally shot a man, and the man Qnl n dying said: "God is just. I shot your athor just here twenty years ago." A bishop an': aid to Louis XI. of France: "Make an iron [ow ;age for all those who do not think a? we lo?an iron cage in which the captive can OCO leither lie down nor stand straight-'p." It twe vas fashioned?the awful instrument of punshmsnt. After awhile the Bishop offender rac Louis XI., and for fourteen years he was in are hat same cage, and could neither lie down lor stand up. It is a poor rule that will not mo' York both ways. "With what measure ye Bna nine, lb suau I/O moosuicu iaJ 7UU ugum, ; . "Oh, my friends, let us ba resolveil cosold ,cst es.? and pray more! That which in the Bible lec 3 used a? the symbol of all gra-io'i* influ- , jnces is the dove, not the por cupine. Wo may Q0U ;o uuskillfully manage the life-b.mt that we j\c 'hall run down tho?e whom we want to res* :ue. The first preparation for Christiau use'uln^ss is warm-hoarted common sense, prac;ical symoathy for those wham wj want to lave. What headway will we make in the T Tudgment if in this world we have been hard >n those who have gone astray' What h?advay will you and I tnake in the last Gr.'at no ] ludgment, when we must have mercy or per- maJ sh? The Bible says; "They shall have judgnent without mercy that sho weth no mercy." has [ see the scribes of Heaven looking up into ?jrji lie face of such a man, saving: "What! r*ou plead for mercy, you, who in all your vicl ife never had. nny mercy cn your fellows? p0V Don't you remember how hard you were in rour opinions of those who wera astray J Don't 80n fou remember when you ought to have given fora i helping hand you employed a hard heel.' . Hercy! You must misspeak yourself tioi tvhen you plead for mercy here, j-jfl llercy for others bat no mer^y for you. l>ook," says the scribes of heaven, "look at Jt I hat inscription over the Throne o'fJulg- ,jen nent, the Throne of God's Judgment" Sue . t coming out letter by letter, word by word, it a sentence by sentence, until your startled vison reads it and your remorseful spirit apjropriate3 it: "With what measure ye mete, dea t snail be measured to you again. Depart, re cursed!" aire get About sir months ago, says a Wash- cjjj| ngfon correspondent, a man giving hia citj iame as James Eustaue secured nn an(] ludience with Secretaiy Lamar. He j3 a isked the Secretary if he remembered to t laving lost a pocketb ook containing g lotea and money to the amount of sev- inSJ jral thousand dollars in 1874, while a for Representative from Mississippi. The 0f 3ecretary replied that he did. Eustace v/iv .hen said: "Do you further remember run ;elling the fincler of ihe pocketbook evil ,hat if he granted a favor he would not lave to call upon you in vain ? Well, [ am the man to whom you made that 1 >romise. I have beon unfortunate in I lince then and need employment bad- ten y." The Secretary told him to report am< or duty the following morning, and whi jave him a placo on the laborers' roll pco it $840 a year. The incident found its to. voy into print, and came to the knowl- get! idge of James M. Martin, of Spring- ban ield, Mo. Last week Secretary Lamar sarn eceived a letter from Martin denounc- diai ng Eustace as; an impostor. He said of t Eustace was one of his neighbors, and co1' lad often heard him tell the story of 9l,d inding the Secretary's money and the ern latter's promise. Eustace has received gct uis dismissal from the department. aPP pro -uousiN uen~ jj olsom is in Umaha m01 ooking alter the Folsom estate in that Plc' :ity, which is worth from $350,000 to a^.a 6300,000. The Omaha Bee reports him * is thinking of hiring a secretary and . tceping a scrap-book. "Some of these ^ paragraphs are very funny," said Mr. mc< Folsom, "but the one that accuses me 9U^ )f wearing a scarfpin as big as a half lollar with a red rooster with green cathers is a monstrous exaggeration. L'ou can say 'officially' that I have too ^ nuch taste to wear a scarfpin of that of 8 n'ze. Hero is the pin. You will see T hat it is no larger than a ten-cent call >iece, and ia simply a Florentine mo- p iaic." The natives of Now Britain, an island 1 in the Pacific, hare a custom of caging sub their daughters until they reach the tioa marrying age. This plan saves a deal 3f trouble and expense, as may be seen alee it a glance. There are no elopements j in New Britain, and there are no bank- trvj ruptcies by reason of heavy demands \a'r for spring bonnets. In fact, 1;he na- <juc tives make very parsimonious use of pay clothing, wearing but a narrow cloth trea about their loins, They would make woi splendid cigarette photographs, phi IMPERANCE' DEPARTMENT. 1 Due to Drink. pr rhe author of "Our Criminals and ristianity," Mr. W. M. F. Round, tes that in the State of New York last ,r we had in prisons, jails, penitentia- c i, and other penal institutions an aggate of 15,690 persons, and that this ,n increase of thirty-three per cent. r the estimated criminal population of D 0, while in the same period th3 popu- leys on of the State ha* increased but *j"!' >ut twenty per cent. At least three- i^l rfchs of this criminal aggregate may rose traced directly or indirectly to strong cen1 ak. As a factor of crime the liquor ?00| nse system is a "success."?Temper. a gj - A c? aatvwoc, _______________ aic frac Results of Local Option. tion ["he Atlanta Cona'.itutim gives notes hot) m some of the Prohibition counties ^ei tll6 Georgia, as follows: Prohibition 8ka( at into effcct in Pierce County on y0ic ril 1, 1880, or six years ago.) ;The is ft r previous, the total valuation of I estate for the county was $544,283; era| ; year it wa3 $795,680, or an increase li^s, over sixty per cent. At the same boai e, the county tax has been reduced m*r aa fifty-two and one-half on the hun- pQtJ d to thirty-five cents. The county 8i0D Tee from debt, and has several hun- find d dollars in the treasury. The mer- se^v ,nts, citizen?, and Board of Commislers of Hartwell, in Hart county^ bin, ;ify, over their signatures, to the oth< owing facts: '-The morals and ao- outl . habits of the people have been , t remarkably improved. The relig- whi 9 sentiment among the people has mor wn in strength acd influence. e:irr 3 farm-houses in our county hear *3 *( a^e marks of improvement, and every- c?n ly is by ccmmon consent united and labc ving for the interest and progress of * county. The trade of our own town improved, and is growing better OQ i ry day. The money that was once and itcd for liquor is now spent for home or o lforts." Eighty business firms of La at 5 nge unite in this testimony: "The i?*nj is said prohibition would ruin our of si n, but since its adoption alout $150,- a da have been permanently invested; nty new houses now going up, no ant stores or residences, and our town plcn atly improved. Our people unani- whe js as to good done by it morally and ncially." The Clerk of the Court ifies that the list of signatures to this the laration includes all tie business- sion ses in the city, with frffo or three eption3.? Christian StaUnmnn. as t< at t] Effects of the Traffic. ja w Te find that all drinking is dangeroui sari( ven "moderate''drinking. There is earn aabit that so insensibly steals upon a l and makes him its slave. The grave P Qr uncounted thousands of ''moderate" ]ar t ikers who died of rum?base, abject wit! ;ims of the terrible thirst which over- hobrered them. To the body it is a poi. It ruins the nerves, it enfeables the wor] in, i: d st oys the stomach and digaa ?g< i; it poisons the liver, it destroys the tipp neys; it bloats and disfigures a man, Re.C( uins his skin by blotching and reding it. It shortens life, even where cite, oes not kill outright. To the moral mac ure, it is equally as great an evil. It dens all sense of right and wrong. mjn inflames the passions, and leads ner >ctly to crime. It makes a man for- The his duty to his parents, hi* wife, his 8erv [dren; it destroys his usefulness as a Pr?| .en, a3 a contributor to the wealth [ natural prosperity of the nation. It the n evil to a man, and no less an evil are ! he State. It is the most potent factor ' illing our jails and penitentiaries and ' me asylums. It increases our taxes afte all these things, and for the support a sti almshouses filled with the helpless cs and children of these victims of j i. It is evil to all, and nothing but flam .?Toledo Blade. A 9too Decreased Consumption. accn here has bein a decrease of revenue ihe United Kingdom during the last occt years of some ?4,500,090 in the belo Pitt >unt received from the tax on spirits, ich is interpreted to mean that the pie drink less liquor than they used year If they should stop drinking a'totier, the National Treasury would be krupted in short order. If, at the ajn? le time, the consumers who buy In- witl a opium should reform, the finances that he Hindoo end of the Empire would apse. If the use of tobacco sli ;u!d CQaj denly ccasc also, Her Majesty's Go/- year ment would scarcely know whereto thel its next meal, so to sneak. It thus are * of s ears that Eng'and's public financial sperity depends mainly on what some rp] ralists would call the vices of her ] co- are We de not live in an edifice duri pted for the throwing of stones in ness i particular, but we are not quite oo ly oil as England. As it is rather a re5p icult matter for her to make ends sensi ;t now, temperance reform becomes a thin; ject of some importance to the budstatesmen.? World. brca Temperance Notes. seas< roncral Neal Dow is writing a history J?J'S .lcoholic prohibition. ^ ' 'he W. C. T. U. has rightly been ed "organized mother love." an(j 'rancis Murphy ha3 planned a blue of xm campaign in Iowa in September. The; of p he SweJish Riksdag has granted a of p sidy of 8,000 crowns for the prom)- the i of tcmpcrauce by means of literature ' 11_ A!.A ?Afo r\f flm nan nf ling wiiii tuc cxiutio ui kuv u<iu mui >holic liquors. they 'he boycotters in New York are now ng their hand at boycotting a particubrand of brer. If thev could be in- . :ed to boycott beer altogether, and at j tho beer money into the household The isury or the saving> bank, their spleen this lid be turned to good account.? cent ladclphia Record. ..... f0 p FHE COAL MINER. 1VATIONS AND PLEASURES O ANTHRACITE WORKERS. ; Houses They Live In?A Miner Outfit?What they Earn?Preparing for a Blast?Miners' Amusements. ottcd along the hillsides.and the va of the anthracitc area of Pennsylv says a Scranton letter to the Phil >hia Times, are thousands of mode e homes, around whose porches tl s are blooming and in whose adj ; gardens the truces of industry ar d taste are visible in these gold< 9. Some of these dwellings are on ngle story, but the majority'of the two stories high. They are co: ae buildings, crected for accommod . rather than comfort, jet combimr l, and around the doors of many < n and under the friendly shade fruit trees that throw their co iows across the walks are heard tl ;cs of children, whose merry pratt ital to anarchism and all other isr ; aim at the destruction of love at le and hope and religion. As a ge thing, the miners have large fan , and while their tables do n st of many of life's luxuries, th lage to get a moderate share of su< stantial fare a? pork and cabba^ itoes and beefsteak, with an occ al pie. The majority of them no . it a difficult matter to feed ther es and their families. It requires i 11 degree of tact, at the present ra earning, to pay the monthly sto 3, to say nothing of clothing and tl er necessities of life. Ana yet tl put of coal is large. f hen business is briBk seven or eigl rs constitute a miner's working da; le the laborers work ten hours < e per day. On full time a min is from |2.50 to |2.75 a day, and . irtunate just now if his earnings av? $1.25 to $1.50. Under favorable c: istances, and with pienty of work, ?rcr earns $1.75 a day generally, b ioes not earn much more than 75 cec y at present. The men employed < it is called "the day shift" general o work at 7 o'clock in the mornin those employed in the mines at nigl n the "night shift," begin their tas' o'clock in the afternoon. The fo< the miner and his family general jists of plain, substantial fare, mc ome kind being used invariably on y. Much of this meat is bacon < oulder," which is bought because leaperthan "butchers'meat." This staple article of diet and it is su; lented by bread, potatoes, cabbagi in in season, and a good deal of sa and cheese. These constitute tl q articlei of food on a miner's tabl when work is steadier and paybetl love of luxury extends to an occ al C:\ke or pie. Some of the miner ough they are the exceptions to tl eral rule, are so fortunately situat< ) be able to raise their own pork, ar leir tables meat is not as scarce as ith those who depend for the necc ?s and comforts of life on their slend ings. he miner's outfit requires in Ihe fir e a coarse suit of clothing. If tl king place is wet an oilea suit sim 0 that worn by sailors n essentia 1 a broad sou'wester hat and hea^ nailed boots. The hat is general rided with a place for holding tl p in front while the miner is k. The miner also must have a dn merally six or seven feet long at ed with about six inches of stec ent inventions have improved on th litive method of making room f blast that brings down the anthr , and a patent augur does duty ly places at present for the cumbe e drill aud is much handier. Tl it of the miner includes an oil-can, ing-lamp, wicks for the latter, a di pail and a pail for coffee or wate blasting materials consist of powd ed in twenty-five-pound kegs or ' )ared cartridges. When the form >ed the miner makes up his ov ges and uses water-prcof paper fi purpose. The ready-made cartridji supplied in fire-proof cases. I preparing for a blast a steel need it five or six feet long is inserted charge, wh:ch is tamped clos r which the needle is withdrawn an raw or squib inserted in the ho i made for the purpose of ignitin explosive. In gaseous mines toucl bs are employe J to fire the blas^as e would be specially dangerous. II these fine points must be unde d by the miner to carry on his woi :essfully; but, careful as he is, grei dents that startle the country and fl ?!e communities with woe sometim ir. -To this class of mining horro ng the disasters at Avondale, We ston and Nanticoke, all of compar ly recent occurrcnc?, and the Carboi mine "cave-in'' of nearly thirl s ago, which is still remembere dly by some of the older miners < Lackawana Valley. A disaster thi s twenty or forty precious lives at le swoop is naturally rcmembere 1 terror, but the miscellaneous deatl are caused bj' fall of roof and e ions of fire damp in a single year ai less appalling. The death list in tl regions is te;ribly augmented evei by the fatalities in the mines, an ong array of widows and orphans wl ;hus suddenly depiived of the meai upport is something pitiful to coi ilate. le pleasures in the life of the mini of a primitive sort. Occasional! ng the dramatic season he may wi one of the many plays that travel < comic opera. He likes a goc ire or speech and has a good deal < ect for the man who can talk commc 3 backed by conviction. As agencr the hard-working class of m< frankness. They don't apprecia licity or the political diplomacy th; ?s the word of promise to the ear ar ks it to the hope. In the plcn >n tbe miner, if he has the time, ci himself most. He believes in simp sures and will take a glass of bei sionallv unless he is a strict tempe man. There :<s not a great deal < king among rue nuucn mcav um< ji good many of them arc mcmbe various tempcrancc organization f keep a close watch on the progrc nblic questions and the movemen ablic men and are careful readers * newspapers. Many of the mine g the Lackawanna Valley own tl : homes they live in and if work wi e abundant they would be happy, i are a thirfty, industrious class, an< e generous almost to a fault, are n< ny means extravagant. few months ago a paper was start< Ieber, Ark., and named O/i, Pahai salutatory was: "I'll monkey wil thing awhile.?The Editor." R ly it expired, and here is its dyir >: "Valedictory: The monkey ceas erform." ' ' ' ' . '' ' Qnicksllrer. Quicksilver forms a part of a soft, rodt rock called cinnabar, composed of mercury and sulphur. The cinnabar i? * crushed and exposed to the heat, when the metal, in form of vapor, passes into a vessel suitable for the purpose, wher? it is cooled. Then, being reduced to it* liquid state, it is pure and fit for use. When men working in the mines heat . the rocks, the quicksilver will sometimes roll out in drops as large as a pigeon's egg, and fall on the ground in a million sparkling globules. It said to be very a_ beautiful against the dark, red rock; giibicnug every wiicre wuu mis iiviug 8t silver," while every crack and crevice is ie also filled with it. a. Just as wood floats on water because ifc l(j is lighter, so large stones thrown into a ;n kettle of mercury would float on top, it is so much more heavy a substance than. jq the stone. 3y There are only four important localia. ties where it is obtained?California, Peru, Austria, and Almaden, in Spain. 0?f The nearest mines to us arc those in Cal0f ifornia. The mines in Peru were dis0\ covered in a curious manner. Cinnabar, kP when ground very fine, makes a beautiful [e red paint. The Indians used this to orng nament their bodies on great occasions; 1(j This caused the couhtry where they lived n. to be examined, and the cinnabar was jj. found. The Romans used this paint hundreds of years ago in decorating their By images. It is of great value now in oar jjj times, and we call it vcrmil'.ion. c This wonderful quicksilver is very usea'_ ful in separating metals from the rocks lW to which they cling. The rocks aro n. crushed fine, sifted, and washed until 10 as much of the gold and silver is removed te as possible. Then it is placed in a botre tie with the quicksilver, which seems to absorb it at once, separating it entirely he from every particle of sand or rock. If the metal to be cleansed is gold, you will see a yellowish mass of a sort Of .. paste or amalgam. This is heated, and the mercury or quicksilver flies away, leaving behind it Dure cold. Although mercury is so useful in many ,r_ ways, it is also a deadly poison, and its jr_ vapor so dangerous that in the search fora it many persons have lost their lives. Not many years ago the mines of Aualtg tria took fire, and 1,300 workmen were 3n poisoned, many of them dying in conjy sequence; snd the water used to quench. ? the flame9, pumped into a river near by, caused all the-fish in the river to die. tg Have you ever seen mercury carried J(j about? It is put in sheepskin bags and ]y cast iron bottles. It is so heavy that instead of an ordinary cork, an iron cc stopper is used?screwed in! 3r Sometimes these bags do sad havoc, aa fj in the case of a storage of several in the j3 hold of a ship bringing it to this couap. try. fome of the bags leaked. Everyg body on board wa3 poisoned. Every l't bit of metal was covered with a silver 1C coating of quicksilver. _ w e'r McClellan and Barnside. a- Among the accounts from various st points of view of the Battle of iridic ericksburg, in the Century, is one by ?d General B. N. Couch, from which we id quote as follows: "Toward evening, oa it the 8th of November, 1862, at Warrens ton, McClellan rode up to Burnside'a er headquarters to say that he had been. relieved of the command of the army. ,.t Burnside replied: ^ 'T am if ia Ka/3 VAW 10 JL am uua?u aw 10 i/au |yw**vj j (j. very, very!' 4 'It was j ust at dark. I had dismounted, ^ and, standing there in the snow, was k, superintending the camp arrangements of jg my troops, when McClellan came up with at his staff, accompanied by General BurnlU side. McClellan drew in his horse, and l(j the first thing he said was: I " 'Couch, I am relieved from the com;s mand of the army, and Burnside u mj or successor.' a_ "I stepped up to him and took hold of iQ his hand, and said: 'General McClellan, I am sorry for it.' Then, going around lje the head of the horse to Burnside, I a said:'General Burnside, I congratulate n- y?u-' ,r "Burnside heird what I said to Gene'r eral McClellan; he turned away his head, jn and made a broad gesture as he exer claimed: rn " 'Couch, don't say a word about it.* or "His manner indicated that he did eg not wish to talk about the change; that he thought it wasn't good policy to do ]e so, nor the place to do it. He told mo afte;war4 that he did not like to tako c the command, but that he did so to keep icj it from going to somebody manifestly je unfit for it. I assumed that he meant Hnnifpr Thosft of us who were well a acquainted with Burnside knew that ha a was a brave, loyal man, but we did not think he had the military ability to comr_ mand the Army of the Potomac, .jj "McClellan took leave on the 10th. at Fitz John Porter sent notes to the corp? HI commanders, informing them that Moe3 Clellan was going away, and suggesting r3 that wc ride around with him. Such a gc seen? as that leave-taking had never been known in our army. Men shed ? tears and there was great cxcitement among the troops. $ "I think the soldiers had an idea that McClellan would take care of them; wouldn't put them in places where they a would be unnecessarily cut up; and if a general has the confidence of nis men ha 1S is pretty strong. But officers and men _ were determined to servo Burasida re loyally." _______ f? The Shyiuff Horse. d Why does a horse shy ! asks tne L.\veto SfO'k Journal. Became he see? some13 thin": which he does not unders"and, and i- is filled with a greater or less degree of fear, something as the boy feels when he er shys at tha burying-ground and goes l_ around to keep clear of it. It may be ? some new or unusual object that the )r horse sees, or it msy be an imperfect view l(j of it. Even a familiar objei.t, if it comes to view suddenly and unexpectedly wilt m cause a horse to shy or jump, just as aa aj unexpected object or sound causes a ;n nervous person to start. When a person [e is so startled, how much would it imat prove the matter to be scolded at or given lCj a cut with the whip? Just as much a? jc the same treatment would in the case of a. the horse. Harshness only aggravates je the matter. The more the norse is er scolded and whipped the more nervous __ he gets, and every time he passes the 0f place where the fright and whipping cccurred ho will recollect the unpleasant rs affair, and he will begin to prick up his s ears, and fidget, ready for another jump. sj Give him the lines and he will go by in a f.. hurry. The proper way is never to strike or scoici a norse mat ia aiui ntn ? rs ened. Speak to him coolly, calmly and lc kindly: give him time to see and collect -t3 his scattered senses, and make him feel ig that you are his friend and protec.or. 3 When he sees that all is right, there is an end to all further trouble. We have seen a horse refuse to cross an unsafelooking bridge, but when the driver took him by the bits and walked ahead, the id horse cautiously followed. Ne>.t timo o! he required no coaxing or urging to cross th tho bridge. He might nm been whip-e<l c- into it t.t first, but was not tfcc milder ig course, although a little trouble, the betes ter one? The horse showed hi8 confi| deuce ia the driver ever afterward.